Krillion Recorded answers
3,242 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work sector by sector, writing down four or five roles for each before judging any of them: ceremonial and religious duties, armed forces and emergency services, maritime and aviation work, healthcare, heavy industry, transport, hospitality, sport and entertainment. The obvious label in each sector is the weakest submission, so keep pushing toward the narrower version of it, the rank, the specialism, the single machine, the one event of the year. Titles that combine a task with a garment, a piece of equipment or a rank do well, and so do institutional names from outside the English-speaking world. Check each candidate against the plain test of whether the clothing is compulsory, then submit the strangest one you can honestly defend.
Get a hint
Start from the garment rather than the job: think of roles you would recognise across a room by a cap, an apron, a badge or a reflective stripe.
A little more
Then drop a level in every sector and note the posts nobody lists first: those tied to one ceremony, one vessel, one ward or one season of the year outscore the general label.
One step further
Finish with compound titles that fuse a duty with a detail of dress or kit, and with institutional names drawn from armed forces, religious communities and old households.
Reveal answers 3,242
- MicrobiologistDeep Cut85points
- Micrometer inspectorDeep Cut85points
- Microminiature repairerDeep Cut85points
- MicrosurgeonDeep Cut85points
- MiddlerDeep Cut85points
- MikoDeep Cut85points
- Military air traffic controllerDeep Cut85points
- Military aircrew memberDeep Cut85points
- Military ambulance driverDeep Cut85points
- Military audiologistDeep Cut85points
- Military batmanDeep Cut85points
- Military contracting officerDeep Cut85points
- Military courierDeep Cut85points
- Military drummerDeep Cut85points
- Military electricianDeep Cut85points
- Military emergency management specialistDeep Cut85points
- Military entomologistDeep Cut85points
- Military finance specialistDeep Cut85points
- Military flight attendantDeep Cut85points
- Military free-fall parachutistDeep Cut85points
- Military intelligence analystDeep Cut85points
- Military intelligence officerDeep Cut85points
- Military intelligence systems maintainerDeep Cut85points
- Military interpreterDeep Cut85points
- Military IT specialistDeep Cut85points
- Military judgeDeep Cut85points
- Military Knight of WindsorDeep Cut85points
- Military linguistDeep Cut85points
- Military musicianDeep Cut85points
- Military paralegalDeep Cut85points
- Military patrol athleteDeep Cut85points
- Military pentathlon competitorDeep Cut85points
- Military postal clerkDeep Cut85points
- Military Provost GuardDeep Cut85points
- Military Provost StaffDeep Cut85points
- Military saddlerDeep Cut85points
- Military training leaderDeep Cut85points
- Military weather forecasterDeep Cut85points
- Military working dog handlerDeep Cut85points
- Milk checkerDeep Cut85points
- Milk loaderDeep Cut85points
- Milk processorDeep Cut85points
- Milk samplerDeep Cut85points
- Milk separatorDeep Cut85points
- Milk sterilizer operatorDeep Cut85points
- Milk testerDeep Cut85points
- Mill attendantDeep Cut85points
- Mill engineerDeep Cut85points
- Mill feederDeep Cut85points
- Mill heaterDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is a rarity ladder, not a correctness test, which is why the same broad profession can land at the bottom while an obscure variant of it tops the table. Of 3242 recorded answers, 3161 reached at least sixty points, and almost all of those, 2797, sat in the eighty-five band: valid and specific, but shared with enough other players to be common. Only one answer reached a hundred, the ceremonial referee title Gyoji, and that outlier shows how thin the top of the field was. Everything at eighty-five earns the same, whether it is the Indonesian court servant Abdi dalem, the impersonator billed as Abraham Lincoln presenter, or the industrial-sounding Aircraft de-icer; the puzzle does not rank one above another. The 363 answers capped at sixty are the familiar ones, the broad labels most people reach for first, and choosing them means settling for the floor.